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Visualizing Expansion Lesson 4: Maps of the Missouri River Valley
Ellen Schneider
In this lesson, students will compare two maps documenting the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers to discover how two different groups…
Visualizing Expansion, Contact, and Conflict Lesson 3: Art and Indian Removal on the Plains Presentation
Ellen Schneider
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 3: Art and Indian Removal on the Plains
Ellen Schneider
In this lesson, students will compare John Gast's 1872 painting American Progress to Kiowa Indian Etahdleuh's sketches from Ft. Marion, Florida, where…
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 2: European Explorers and Native Cartographers Presentation
Ellen Schneider
Presentation to accompany Visualizing Expansion Lesson 2
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 2: Native American Cartography and European Exploration
Ellen Schneider
This lesson shows students how Native American knowledge of land and traditions of mapping interacted with European understandings of physical space…
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 1: Introduction to Using Maps Presentation
Ellen Schneider
Presentation to accompany Visualizing Expansion Lesson 1
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 1: Reading Maps Worksheet
Ellen Schneider
Examine this map, which was made in America in 1962, then answer the questions on the back of this sheet.
Visualizing Expansion Lesson 1: Introduction to Using Maps
Ellen Schneider
In this lesson, students will explore different kinds of maps and examine how the finished products reveal mapmakers' personal views, values, and…
Visualizing Expansion Optional Resource
Ellen Scheider, Deborah Michaels
Source analysis guide
Visualizing Expansion Maps and Art Secondary Sources
Ellen Scheider, Deborah Michaels
Secondary sources for Visualizing Expansion theme
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